invasion by the CIA into Cuba to overthrow Castro, Kennedy did not send reinforcements to help the CIA, which could have stopped the rebels from ever seizing the Mafiosi’s estates (3).When John Kennedy began to run for the office of the Presidency Joe Kennedy called, again, on Mafia boss of Chicago, Sam Giancana to help his son win the election (3). The deal between Kennedy and Giancana was to have the votes thrown in West Virginia, which would win the Democratic primary elections for John Kennedy (3). Kennedy, in turn, would have to return Joe Adantis to the United States (3). Adantis was a Mafia member who had previously been deported to Sicily (3). Giancana upheld his end of the deal and John Kennedy was elected President in the closest presidential race this country had ever seen. John Kennedy, however, did not live up to his father’s deal with the Mafia, but instead waged the biggest attack against organized crime in the history of the United States. Bobby Kennedy, District Attorney appointed by his brother President John Kennedy, led the investigations against the Mafia. Giancana had been double-crossed and in retribution put a contract out on President Kennedy’s life (3).The Mafia must have thought that if they were to attempt the assassination of President Kennedy they would have to do it successfully and covertly with no direct connections between them and the assassination. If anything had gone wrong, they would face being permanently shut down by the Kennedy administration. The hired assassins chosen by the Mafia had no direct contact with the Mafia, would not talk, and were not known by the FBI (8). The Mafia had indisputable means and motives, but the opportunity just could not have happened without some pull from DC. Could the Mafia and Vice-president Johnson have had a social contract on Kennedy’s life to get Johnson into office, and abolish the harsh investigations against the Mafia?Lyndon Johns...
